Nuri Spiced Sardines in Olive Oil

The connoisseur's tin at hometown prices, from one of the last fully artisanal canneries in Europe.

Price: 4.5 EUR (Single 125g tin at Portuguese supermarkets and the Matosinhos cannery shop (US official shop charges $7.95 for the same tin))

Where to buy: Pinhais cannery tour & shop in Matosinhos (Porto) — fish still hand-packed since 1920 — or any good mercearia

Price checked 2026-07-03

• Nuri and Pinhais-branded tins come off the same Matosinhos line; Nuri wrapper is the local-price version of the identical fish
• The cannery tour (book ahead) shows women hand-wrapping each tin in paper — then buy a stack at roughly half US price
• Food is 6% VAT so the refund is negligible — buy these for authenticity, not the tax break